How rare are blued-cored EK's?

[Montgomery Burns]

your on the right track here.
nice pictures to ...

to me
Its clearly visible that on the LW case there is a layer over the metal surface .
so it is not a acid /chemical oxidation process that collared the metal black .

the thickness is so thin a paint would not be the first I would think of,,
More a Heating /oil based evaporation could be what we are looking at ..

not so fore the "blued" collared cores .
thickness of the blueish surface layer speaking against it .

For me ,,that thickness speaks more of a paint then anything else .


Still hard to judge




regards kay

[Roglebk]

There was NO paint on any of the 6 'blued core Zimmermann type' crosses i had.

There is no thickness at all on the surface treatment of blued cores, we are talking nanometers here.

Have removed active rust on 2 cores, one Prinz and one Type 2 core. This is no problem at all since the whole core is metal and nothing else.

Have also removed active rust from several blued guns. Mainly modern hunting rifles but also older Swedish Army rifles (Mausers). Result is the same, rust totally dissapears and only a slight difference in hue can be seen.

The Blueing on guns and Zimmermann cores is the same type, as stated in previous post but think the methods vary.

All the 1813's and 1870s i've handled withstood corrosion so much better than 'blued' and other 1914s. Cast cores is lots more pitted/uneven than the stamped and still they seem less affected by rust. My conclusion is that the process used on cast cores is superior, protection wise, to the 'blueing' but that the latter is lots more appealing.

[Borzadow]

You are talking here mainly about Zimmermann's blued core EKs, but we have to remember that there was many more makers that was producing blued cores.

Here is an example from KAG manufacture.

[Bernie Brule]

Mine.

[Tiger 1]

You are talking here mainly about Zimmermann's blued core EKs, but we have to remember that there was many more makers that was producing blued cores.

Here is an example from KAG manufacture.

The nice example you show has a blackened core, not a blued one. Bernie shows a blued core quite nicely.

All the best.

Tony